Language: | Hungarian |
Feature: | Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns by Johannes Helmbrecht |
Value: | Multiple politeness distinctions |
magá | 2nd sg. hon. | - used by less educated people; etymologically, it is a 3rd person reflexive pronoun 'he himself, he alone' |
maguk | 2nd pl. hon. | - 2nd pl polite form, used by less educated people etymologically, it is a 3rd person reflexive pronoun 'themselves' |
Ön | 2nd sg. hhon. | - the original meaning is 'self' (cf. E.g. in öngyilkos'a suicide'); this form is used by more educated people, higher degree of politeness than in magá/ maguk |
Önök | 2nd pl. hhon. | notes see Ön |